Arne Duncan appears to be actively promoting for-profit schemes for public education. The link to the Hill is just jaw-dropping. Blatantly promoting schmedumacation profiteering.
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In other education news, the educators sounding the alarm were/are being monitored. For what??
The link provided to the smear piece by Huffington post reporter Peter Cunningham, a former DOE employee, doesn’t include the comments, so I’ll post the link here:
huffingtonpost.com/peter-cunningham/ravitch-redux_b_3768887.html
This comment from the Cunningham piece tears down his arguments:
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this article criticizes ravitch for making ad hominem arguments, cherry-picking data, setting up straw men, distorting language, taking comments out of context and ignoring sound evidence that conflicts with her point of view. then the article proceeds to do each and every one of those things.
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People have asked why Huffington Post would be so anti-public education…assuming that because they are reportedly “progressive” that they would not buy into the nonsense that is charter schools.
Ariana Huffington once said “we want the purple people.” “purple people” meaning those of us who actually think and don’t subscribe to sheep-ism by following party lines blindly. Purple being the combination of conservative (red) and progressive (blue)…
…but in reality, they want the purple vote, but do not want the purple “voice”…for example–the abortion debate–women who believe in equality but didn’t believe in abortion were marginalized–denied a voice.
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